22 Facts About Jesse Watters

Jesse Bailey Watters was born on July 9,1978 and is an American conservative political commentator and television program host on the Fox News cable television network.

Jesse Watters had his first book, How I Saved the World, published by HarperCollins.

Jesse Watters was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in several neighborhoods of the northwest city, and then briefly during high school to Long Island, New York.

Jesse Watters is the son of Stephen Hapgood Watters, a teacher, and child psychologist Anne Purvis, daughter of Morton Bailey, Jr.

Jesse Watters' paternal grandfather, Franklin Benjamin Jesse Watters, was a cardiologist at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Newington, Connecticut, and a professor at the University of Connecticut Medical Dental School.

Jesse Watters has some Irish ancestry on his father's side.

Jesse Watters grew up in the Germantown neighborhood of Upper Northwest Philadelphia and then later moved to the East Falls neighborhood of the Lower Northwest of the city.

Jesse Watters attended the William Penn Charter School through junior year of secondary school, before moving again from Pennsylvania, far further northeast with his family to Long Island, New York state.

In 2003, he moved to the production staff of The O'Reilly Factor; in 2004, Jesse Watters began to appear on air in segments of O'Reilly's show.

On June 11,2014, Jesse Watters debuted on the Fox News Channel show Outnumbered, later occasionally appearing as a guest co-host.

On November 20,2015, Jesse Watters debuted his own monthly Fox News program, Jesse Watters' World.

In October 2016, Jesse Watters was criticized for a segment of Jesse Watters' World that was widely considered racist toward Asian Americans.

In New York City's Chinatown, Jesse Watters asked Chinese Americans if they knew karate, if he should bow before he greets them, or if their watches were stolen.

On October 5,2016, Jesse Watters tweeted what Variety's Will Thorne called a "non-apology" about the segment.

Trump speaking on a panel about female entrepreneurship, Jesse Watters commented, "So I don't really get what's going on here, but I really liked how she was speaking into that microphone," as he parodied holding the microphone as a phallic symbol.

Fox News Channel indicated their continued support for Jesse Watters, saying he "was using a metaphor", and that his comments "had been twisted completely out of context".

Jesse Watters further stated he was simply "expressing my opinion that VP Harris' current leadership style could be an issue if elected".

Jesse Watters is registered to vote as a member of the Conservative Party of New York State.

Jesse Watters married Noelle Inguagiato in 2009 and they have twin daughters.

Noelle filed for divorce in 2018 after Jesse Watters admitted to an affair with a producer on his show, Emma DiGiovine who was about 26 at the time.

Jesse Watters claimed to have begun dating DiGiovine by letting the air out of her vehicle's tires so she would ask him for a ride.

Jesse Watters announced his engagement to DiGiovine in August 2019, and they married that December.